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Columbus, OH

The New Republic

At the Democratic convention in Chicago, many of the speakers—from Barack and Michelle Obama to Tim Walz—have warned Democrats not to get complacent about a Kamala Harris victory. Yet something subtle is also going on here. Democrats are keeping complacency at bay—without letting Donald Trump balloon into a psychologically frightening figure in their minds. Democrats are going into this election with the correct level of guarded confidence. We talked to Brian Beutler, who has a good piece on all this coming out Friday on his Substack, about the careful balance Democrats are striking—and why it may be the key to shrinking Trump into a diminished figure. Listen to this episode here.

How Kamala Wins: Inside the Clever Strategy Causing Trump to Unravel

An “undercover” Mike Lindell is running around the Democratic National Convention arguing with Democrats. Like other right-wingers, including Matt Walsh, the MyPillow CEO has found his way into the DNC sporting a disguise: shaving off his legendary mustache. He announced he did so “in order to go undercover at the DNC and deliver FrankSpeech viewers undercover footage,” referring to his conservative news website. Instead, all he did was fight a child.On Wednesday, the disgraced CEO was spotted fighting with 12-year-old content creator Knowa De Brasco.Lol wow Mike Lindell debates Knowa pic.twitter.com/K5KSCstgYG— Acyn (@Acyn) August 21, 2024Taking questions from the Democratic...

Watch: MyPillow CEO Loses Fight With 12-Year-Old Child at DNC

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Total Apex Sports & Entertainment

Do you have a friend, relative, or co-worker who tends to gaslight others? Their manipulative acts could be influenced by their zodiac signs. Gaslighting happens when someone tries to influence a situation to make themselves appear rational while making you look insane and inconsistent.

3 Zodiac Signs Who Will Likely Gaslight You

Donald Trump threw out a claim on Fox & Friends Thursday morning that the show hastily corrected. According to Trump, President Joe Biden “sent comrade Kamala to see Putin in Russia three days before the attack [on Ukraine],” falsely claiming that it was a “little-known fact” that the “press doesn’t want to talk about.”Trump didn’t stop there, saying that in this meeting, Harris “gave her case” to Putin, who still attacked Ukraine days later. “He laughed at her,” Trump said. “He thought she was a joke. Now he’s really laughing when he sees her. Can you imagine her negotiating with...

Watch: Fox News Shuts Down Trump’s Deranged Lie About Harris

Ohio State

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The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Los Angeles County, CA

Herbie J Pilato

As the star of TV's Dr. Kildare (NBC, 1961-1966), Richard Chamberlain was a heartthrob for millions of female fans in America and the world. Decades later, the actor transformed into the charismatic king of TV-mini-series with acclaimed productions like the originalShogun (NBC, 1980), and The Thorn Birds (ABC, 1983, in which he played a sexually repressed priest).

The Once Secret Gay Life of Actor Richard Chamberlain ('Dr. Kildare'): 21 Years After He Came Out

Chicago, IL

As the Democratic National Convention closed with balloons blanketing the Chicago’s United Center, the mood was triumphant, with a newly minted presidential nominee and her running mate alongside their families, smiling and waving to the crowd of party delegates. But the celebratory atmosphere wasn’t universal: Those who had hoped that the party would offer the smallest bit of acknowledgement about the suffering and genocide Palestinians have endured since Israel began its brutal war on Gaza more than 10 months ago has been left alienated thanks to the remarkable cowardice of the party. Long before Harris took the stage, it became...

The Black Mark on the Democrats’ Big Party

Virginia State

Kentucky Vibes.net

Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Meghan Markle's venture into the lifestyle space has not been met with universal acclaim, particularly from one well-known figure: Martha Stewart. Earlier this year, in March, Meghan unveiled her new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard. The brand immediately drew comparisons to other celebrity wellness empires, particularly that of culinary icon Martha Stewart. However, these comparisons have reportedly struck a nerve with Stewart, who finds them both "irritating and insulting."

Meghan Markle 'Insulted' Martha Stewart as She 'Won't Hesitate to Take Her Down

Wisconsin State

Minnesota State

Milwaukee, WI

When President Biden was running for reelection, he repeatedly talked about the dangers Trump and his neofascist buddies in the billionaire class represent to “democracy.” Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz, on the other hand, are using the word “freedom.”All this week here at the DNC, people have been enthusiastically holding up signs proclaiming “freedom.” The word “democracy,” while not altogether avoided, has been largely absent both from the signage and the presentations of the various speakers.Vice President Harris’s unofficial theme song has been Beyoncé’s “Freedom”; the three-minute video that preceded her coming onstage Monday night, to that...

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s Secret Weapon Against the Republicans

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Tipping on cruise ships is always a controversial topic. Some cruise passengers believe that tipping should be a personal choice, and others argue that automatic tipping policies are necessary to ensure fair compensation for crew members.

Carnival Responds to Cruise Passenger Wanting to Remove All Tips from Bill

Florida State

Uncovering Florida

Most people are guilty of doing it at least once in their lives, many people do it by accident, some do it because they find it fun, and others do it for reasons like honoring loved ones. Regardless of the situation, just about everyone has released a balloon. The difference is that intentionally releasing balloons is now illegal by House Bill 321’s standards.

Law Signed By DeSantis Makes It Illegal To Release Balloons In Florida

Denver, CO

In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

Mercury will align with Mars on August 24. Its transition will return three lucky zodiac signs’ joy. The universe will relieve and push them over the edge. Certain signs will get the nudge to advance their businesses and careers. They will overcome their fears and shame their critics.

3 Zodiac Signs Whose Joy Returns | August 24, 2024

While Kamala Harris was making her keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump was melting down on Truth Social. The former president and convicted felon promised to give a “Play by Play” of her speech, and it ended up being a long string of whining. “Too many ‘Thank yous,’ too rapidly said, what’s going on with her?” Trump began. It didn’t get any better from there. “She’s talking about how great San Francisco was before she destroyed it, probably not a good idea!” Trump posted, accompanied by a video disparaging Harris’s record as a prosecutor in the city....

Trump Goes off the Deep End During Kamala Harris’s DNC Speech

If last month’s Republican National Convention was akin to a religious revival, then this week’s Democratic equivalent was ... well, also reminiscent of a spiritual gathering, but crossed with summer concert festival vibes (even without Beyoncé). “The atmosphere of the Democratic National Convention this week went beyond mere enthusiasm—it ventured on rapturous,” wrote TNR’s Grace Segers. “Attendees spoke of the overwhelming ‘joy’ of the occasion—a term that has been adopted by [Kamala] Harris and her supporters.”It’s hard to believe that only a month ago, the party was fracturing over whether President Biden should end his reelection campaign. “Today, Democrats look...

The Ecstasy (and Some Agony) of the Democratic National Convention

Democratic members of the Squad joined an Uncommitted movement sit-in outside the Democratic National Convention, protesting organizers’ decision to reject a Palestinian speaker on the convention stage. The protest began Wednesday evening, after DNC organizers rejected the Uncommitted movement’s request for a Palestinian speaker on stage, and continued into Thursday morning.Those sitting outside the United Center were joined by sympathetic Squad members, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who spoke at the first night of the convention. “I think it is critically important for us to send this message of shared humanity,” said Ocasio-Cortez via FaceTime, emphasizing that the request is “a...

AOC and Entire Squad Protest DNC Rejection of Palestinian Speaker

Wyoming State

Pinedale, WY

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PINEDALE—Rep. Albert Sommers (R-Pinedale) lost to a political newcomer in a close-fought contest for a state Senate seat Tuesday, an upset that ousts one of the most influential figures in Wyoming politics in recent years.

Speaker of the House Sommers loses bid for Senate seat

The Lens

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Louisiana State

During my childhood, when my family visited relatives “across the river,” in Bayou Plaquemine, Bayou Goula, Caddo, the Pointe, and White Castle, my siblings and I would sometimes race up and down the levees, some distance away from the cows grazing there. At the summit of the hill, you could see the Mississippi River waters through stands of trees and brush. It never occurred to me that our “playground” was the living testimony of Black men, prisoners of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola whom the state of Louisiana had re-enslaved in the convict leasing system.

No longer ‘half slave, half free’

Kamala Harris has made tackling corporate price gouging and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy cornerstones of her economic platform. She seems to be leaning into some of the Biden administration’s more populist talking points about making life more affordable for ordinary people—earning her plaudits from progressives and predictable freak-outs from Republicans, editorial boards, and economists both on the right and in the discipline’s still mostly orthodox mainstream. So far, however, the Harris campaign hasn’t extended that clear-eyed populism to its climate politics.Consider the Democratic Party platform for 2024: “To lower prices, Democrats will also keep working to boost...

The Climate Message Harris Should Embrace: Fossil Fuels Are a Scam

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